Saturday, November 21, 2009 East Central Illinois

Hello (hola): Welcome to increasingly bilingual schools

By Amy F. Reiter
Sunday, June 17, 2007 2:14 PM CDT

If it's a Friday during the school year, Iracema Clarke's students are probably speaking English.

But the signs on the wall depict two languages, and the children find Spanish words sneaking into English sentences as they learn about the calendar one February afternoon.

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